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Author Ocobock, Paul, 1980- author.

Title An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya / Paul Ocobock
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Contents An "arbitrary line" : male initiation and colonial authority -- "I wanted to make something of myself" : migration, wage labor, and earning an age -- "I saw a paradise" : growing up on the streets of a colonial city -- "The old way ... the only way" : corporal punishment and a community of disciplinarians -- "Jaili Watoto," the children's jail : reforming the young male offender -- "In the past, the country belonged to the young men" : freedom fighting at an uncertain age -- "We're the Wamumu boys" : defeating Mau Mau, creating youth at the end of empire -- "An army without guns" : the National Youth Service and age in Kenyatta's Kenya -- Conclusion : #gocutmyhusband
Summary In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans' contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Coming of age -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
Masculinity -- Political aspects -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
Young men -- Kenya -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Conflict of generations -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Colonial influence
Coming of age
Conflict of generations
Masculinity -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Social conditions
Young men -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Kenya -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Kenya -- Colonial influence
Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072004
Subject Kenya
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821445983
0821445987